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Paolo Fresu

As a leading star of the Italian jazz scene in the 1990s, Paolo Fresu is renowned as an elegant, experimental master of the trumpet, who manages to infuse Miles Davis's cool jazz period with Mediterranean romance and old country folk traditions. Born in Berchidda in the north eastern countryside of Sardinia, Fresu followed in his brother's footsteps and began playing trumpet in his town's marching band at the age of eleven, learning a cyclical breathing technique from elders who played an ancient clarinet-like pipe unique to the region called the Launeddas. Having discovered...